Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity & the Woman's Role | Mary Harrington | Jordan Peterson Podcast

Mary Harrington, in her analysis of feminism in "Feminism Against Progress," argues that feminism emerged post-Industrial Revolution, leading to two branches: the "feminism of care," which values women's roles in the private sphere, and the "feminism of freedom," advocating for women's equal participation in the market. She contends that the latter gained dominance with the advent of hormonal birth control, which she believes has led to the commodification of female sexuality and destabilized sexual relations. Harrington critiques modern feminism, particularly "magazine feminism," for neglecting the importance of motherhood and matriarchy, and she discusses the impact of technology on relationships. While expressing concerns about the challenges young people face in forming stable relationships, she remains optimistic about the resilience of human culture and advocates for a balanced approach to contraception that aligns with human nature.

00:00 Introduction
00:51 Historical Context of Feminism
01:23 Two Responses to Industrial Changes
01:57 The Transhumanist Turn
02:26 Consequences of the Transhumanist Era
02:52 Biological Perspectives on Mating Strategies
03:22 Critique of Modern Feminism
03:54 The Role of Motherhood and Matriarchy
04:25 Technological Impact on Relationships
04:43 The Future of Relationships and Society
05:09 Contraception and Social Policy
05:40 Conclusion

This video is a podcast summary of the Jordan B Peterson episode titled 'Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary Harrington | EP 466'.

Publish date: Jul 25, 2024

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As our Mother and son iconography would suggest, patriarchy is perhaps a natural extension of a spiritual matriarchy where one can not exist without the other as they follow one another throughout the course of all eternity.

Spiritually speaking (gender, race and cults aside), matriarchy can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).

Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.

As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).

Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.

In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.

Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3)

To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.

Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face.


"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba

"My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother" - Proverbs 6 : 20